Washing-machine



(H 0 Model.)

L111 MYERS.

1, WASHING MACHINE.

No. 281,119. 1 Patented July 10, 1883.

WITNESSES: INVBNTOR:

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

LEONARD N. MYERS, OF MIDDLEBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,119, dated July 10, 1883.

application filed March 29,1883. (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEONARD NEWTON MY- ERS, of Middleburg, in the county of Snyder and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved ll ashing-lliachine, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in washing-machines; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my washingmachine, a portion being broken away to show the-interior; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same at a: a, Fig. 1.

A represents the body of the machine, which consists of a rectangular box mounted on four corner legs, and having its internal bottom cylindrical and longitudinally battened as a rubbing-surface or wash-board.

B is the dasher, consisting of a head made of three longitudinal and two end boards, se-

cured together, forming a box like the garret of a house, left open at the eaves a for water to escape from its interior. The lower face of the dasher-head is armed with projecting studs or smooth teeth I). This head is secured upon two uprights, C, which are framed to a crossbar, c, and to this cross-bar a central handle, D, is secured to project through the top E of the machine. This top is made as a box, rabbeted at its lower edge to fit within a corresponding rabbet on the upper edge of the body A, and hinged thereto at c. This inner rabbeted joint between the body and lid is to turn all slop back into the machine. The two ends of the cross-bar or axis 0 are provided with trunnions f, entering vertical slots in the inner faces of the end boards of the cover. These slots serve as bearings for the dasher-trunnions to rise and fall in, or to oscillate in, as the dasher is used for a pounder or for a rubber.

lid E.

H is a rocking bar, journaled in frame G to permit a rocking motion of the connecting-rod and lever h, which is secured to said bar near the middle of each, and is pivoted at one end to the handle D. The lever h is crooked to the left at its junction with rocking bar H to G is a frame-lever, fulcrumed mg to the fits looselyaround the dasher-handle D, moving with it across the box, but allowing the handle to play vertically through it. The lid is raised by pulling backward on the framelcver G, taking the dasher up with it. The clothes to lie-washed being spread in the bot tom of the machine, the lid is returned and hooked down. N ow, by working the handle of lever h, the dasher may be raised and lowered to act as a pounder upon the clothes, and by gradually swinging the frame G, and thus moving the fulcrum of lever h, the pounding may be done over the whole surface of the clothes. Then the dasher may be swung to and fro by means of its own handle as a lever, or, more conveniently, by means of said frame G, worked by both hands of the operator; or the force to be applied to the clothes in rubbing them may be regulated by one hand upon lever 71, pressing the dasher down or raising it up while the lever-frame G is worked by the other hand. By this means any required action-such as pounding, rubbing, and squeezing the clothesmay be produced.

J is an opening, through which clothes may be inserted, provided with a sliding cover.

K K are removable stools attached at one side of the body of the machine by means of loops 2% on the stool engaging pins or hooks Z on'the machine, and provided at their other sides with hinged folding legs L. These stools are to pile clothes on or to set tubs on, and when not in use may be unhooked from the machine, folded up, and stowed away on or in the machine. The machine will be provided with the usual outlet at one side for discharging dirty water.

That I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the box A, having a cylindrical bottom, and lid E, having vertical grooves in its sides, of the dasher B, journaled in said grooves, and provided with the handle D, the pivoted frame G, and the rockshaft H, connected to handle D, and provided with the handle h, substantially as described, pivoted frame G, and the rock-shaft H, suband for the purpose set forthi1 b A stantially'as shown anddescribed.

2.f The combination, Witht e OX ,having a cylindrical battened bottom, and the hinged LEONARD NEWTON MYERS 5 lid E, having Vertical grooves in its sides, of Witnesses:

the dasherB, provided with uprights 0, cross- 0. O. SEEBOLD, bar 0, having trunnions f and handle 1), the J. P.. AURAND. 

